Violence in Society

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

This book is aimed at employers, managers and staff in social work agencies. Historically there has been a slowness to acknowledge the risks which ...

This book estimates the proceeds of crime and mafia revenues for different criminal markets such as sexual exploitation, drugs, illicit cigarettes,...

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that...

The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled b...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

This book contributes to the scientific and ideological debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process by rec...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the p...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...